Staff Reporter:
Thirteen people, including 10 members of the same family, were killed and 15 others injured in a head-on collision between a Bangladesh Navy bus and a microbus in Rampal upazila of Bagerhat on Thursday afternoon.
The deceased include three children, and three women, said Mehenaz Mosharraf, a physician at Khulna Medical College Hospital, where eight of the bodies were sent.
The other four dead bodies were kept at Rampal Upazila Health Complex, and the injured are undergoing treatment at Khulna Medical College Hospital.
Notably, a newly-wed couple is also among the dead.
According to relatives of the couple, the marriage took place at Koyra upazila of Khulna at noon. After the ceremony, a microbus carrying the new couple and their relatives started off for the bride’s ancestral home in Shelabunia area of Mongla upazila in Bagerhat.
Around 4:30pm, the microbus collided with a Navy bus coming from the opposite direction in Belai Bridge area of Rampal upazila, Bagerhat, said Md Hasan, sub-inspector of Katakhali Highway Police Station.
